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Montana Governor Greg Gianforte talks wildfire management at last stop on 56 county tour
The press conference comes in the wake of recent of multiple recent fires in the wildland-urban interface in Helena and served as the last stop on Gianforte’s 56-county tour this year.
“When a forest is managed, we have less severe wildfires, more recreational opportunities, more habitat for wildlife, and more jobs in our communities,” Gianforte said in a press release. “The work done here in Helena is a real testament to that, and my hat’s off to our local partners for proactively managing this area to reduce vulnerability to wildfire.”
How to prevent deadly wildfires? Stop fighting fires. – Mann Gulch, Montana. — We walked with ghosts.
We walked with ghosts.
The afternoon was 73 years ago, something like the Bible’s allotted span of three score and ten. On a hot August day in 1949, lightning struck a Mann Gulch hillside. By suppertime the next day, 11 firefighters were dead and two were dying of their burns. A lifetime, to them, was as brief as 19 years, and no more than 28.
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